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Responses to Dietary Supplementation While Undergoing Cancer Treatment One hundred cancer patients who gathered from a three-state area had modern dietary supplements added to their diets while undergoing standard radiation or chemotherapy. The results were reported by Dr. Hyland as listed below: Standard treatment was not neutralized by dietary supplements containing antioxidants and micronutrients. Radiation and chemotherapy effects against tumor cells were more effective. Normal cells (bone marrow, liver, kidney, and mucosal basal cells) were protected from treatment damage. Malignancies not responsive to therapy, i.e. sarcomas, responded to the combination. Quality of life while having treatment was improved significantly. - G. Hyland, 1999 Can you see the wonderful health implications of this study? Dr. Hyland found that the quality of life of those patients was dramatically improved with no cell damage to healthy cells and greatly reduced negative effects of the chemotherapy and radiation. Another paper is so noteworthy regarding cancer that l am compelled to quote the entire abstract. “An, elderly woman with adenocarcinoma of the colon was treated with standard therapies (surgery radiation, and chemotherapy). She demonstrated exceptional tolerance to treatments. This individual took 2-4g of glyconutritional supplements once or twice daily since her diagnosis. This report covered two years, during which she was treated with IV S-EU twice, and oral and topical 5-FU once each. She experienced only mild diarrhea and fatigue following the final two rounds of 5-FU therapy, and no other expected adverse effects such as hair loss, mouth ulcerations or nausea and vomiting. This lady also recovered quickly from colon surgery and tolerated radiotherapy with no adverse effects. The remarkable tolerance to cancer therapy seen in this patient serves to demonstrate the role nutrition may play in enhancing the quality of life of Cancer patients”. Can you imagine cancer therapy with fewer adverse effects, including hair loss, mouth ulcerations and nausea and or vomiting? If you have cancer what could be better than tolerating the treatments with reduced adverse effects? Glyconutrients may provide the most complementary strategy for supporting modern medicine! Now that you’ve learned what glyconutrients are, and their importance to your health, the question remains, how much do you take? That’s not as simple as you might think. Most people have been conditioned in the modern world with a drug mentality. As an example, if you have a bacterial infection, you might be prescribed to take an antibiotic, lets say at 5OOmg three times a day for ten days. That is an average based on scientific study. The pharmaceutical will work on a biochemical reaction or system, and be far more predictable than a natural substance. However, unexpected reactions to properly prescribed pharmaceutical drugs, not doctor error, are the fourth leading cause of death in North America. Even pharmaceutical drugs? synthetic and highly predictable, are not fully predictable in terms of dose and time. Therefore, how can we expect a food to be dosed precisely? Glyconutrients are necessary for every cell of your body. It would be nice if all of your ceils were born at the same moment and died on a given predictable moment. But that’s not the way it works. When you take glyconutrients orally you are attempting to maintain the glycosylation of all of the cells of your body. Cells are constantly being born and dying. Your trillions of cells have different life Spans. Some of them, as you can see on the cell chart, live for hours and some live for years, and virtually every time period in between. Life Span of Some Cells of the Human Body Cell type Life Span Granulocytes: eosinophils Basophils, neutrophils 10 hours-3 days Stomach lining cells 2 days Sperm Cells 2-3 days Colon Cells 3-4 days Epithelia of small intestine 1 week or less Platelets 10 days Skin epidermal cells 2-4 weeks Lymphocytes 2 months to > a year Red blood cells 4 months Macrophages months-years Endothelial months-years Pancreas cells 1 year or more Bone cells 25-30 years We cannot predict which cells will receive their full, necessary complement of glyconutrients, nor can we predict how many will get the glyconutrients they need with each dose taken. It is theoretically possible to take an oral dose of glyconutrients, supply 500,000 cells with the glyconutrients they need, and have 100,000 of those cells continue to live on while 400,000 of them have expired. The expired cells are being replaced by cells that also need the necessary glyconutrients, and you mayor may not have sufficient glyconutrients available at that moment to get the job done. Many glycoproteins have a half-life of ten days or fewer, so they are built up and degraded in quite a short time. However, a continual ongoing supply of glyconutrients may be essential to be used for new glycoprotein synthesis. With this fact in mind, in at least some cases, it will take months of having a sufficient and steady supply of completely Glycosylated glycoproteins to resolve, or begin to resolve, your particular health issue. With this same idea in mind, it is important to take glyconutrients, not just like you would take a drug for a certain number of days or until you feel well, but every day for the rest of your life. In my experience the other key issue is what I call your body’s threat priority list.” This is a theory of mine, not a rigorously tested scientific fact. However, I believe it is true due to many years of clinical observation. But without the funding for proper research, it remains just a theory. Okay, so what is the body’s “threat priority list?” I have observed that the body will (If it is functioning correctly) work on whatever it thinks is most important to your health. You may recall that various diseases can progress simultaneously in the human body? and the individual with them may be totally unaware. Breast cancer is a good example. I chose that example because most people know someone, knew someone, or will know some one with breast cancer. After breast cancer has been diagnosed, individuals will tell you that they had felt fine. They were symptom-free of the breast cancer for the five to 30 years t took for the breast cancer to form in their body. It is possible, for example? that someone might have fibromyalgia, which they are painfully aware of. They also may have breast cancer brewing in their body. Of course, they will be unaware of the breast cancer and, until it reaches a certain point, it cannot be diagnosed. With this in mind, they may take glyconutrients daily, and their fibromyalgia will not seem to improve. What may be happening in this case is a shifting of glyconutrients by the body to the fight against a more serious foe, and little or none is helping the condition of fibromyalgia, which is an agonizing, but not life-threatening condition. Your Body’s First Priority is Keeping You Alive, Not Keeping You Comfortable Fo For more than nine years, I’ve seen individuals with fibromyalgia who experienced a quality of life enhancement in a matter of days. I’ve also seen some cases where it took months before they experienced the same level of enhancements. I strongly suspect in those cases that something more serious was going on in their bodies than they were aware of or could be diagnosed. You could create that same theoretical scenario with virtually any type of illness. So, how long should it take to see results? Many people will take glyconutrients for the first few days and have tremendous and seemingly miraculous results. Many will not. This is because we are each biochemically and genetically unique. Glyconutrients are food, not drugs, and we cannot predict the time as you would with drugs. We are used to a doctor diagnosing a problem, prescribing a synthetic drug, and saying “Well for this situation one pill three times a day for ten days” as an example. In order for your body to do what is what designed to do for your health it must have the tools it was designed to have. All cells have different life spans and there is no way to predict which cells will be glycosylated with any given serving of glyconutrients. To complicate matters some cells have a glycosylation life of as little as ten days. For this reason we recommend everyone use glyconutrients as part of their daily health plan for their entire life, Don’t think of them as a drug to get rid of symptoms but rather as part of a new lifestyle plan to support optimal wellness the rest of your life. With this in mind I have some recommendations below in terms of amounts and time but keep in mind they are general. How much glyco-nutrition will I need? Your health condition will determine which category you are in and how much of the glyconutrient complex you should be taking each day. Select which category best describes your situation. We have divided the needs into three categories:
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